EPA Gina McCarthy (1) States' Carbon Reductions

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy makes the case for the constitutionality of the new carbon rules at the [Wall Street Journal] ECO:nomics conference.

I fundamentally like what McCarthy relates here on EPA expectations of states:  It isn't necessarily a mandate to hit target carbon reductions, but instead an effort to work collaboratively with states to start where they are, review their current situations vis-a-vis workable goals, and put plans for reductions.  I don't imagine that is an allowance for states to sandbag their efforts, however.  Collectively the states' plans ought to indicate a 30% target reduction by 2030, but I gather that McCarthy has yet to see all of their plans and therefore isn't in a position (yet) to set definitive targets.  Regardless, the mandate from the Supreme Court is that the EPA and the states must acknowledge that carbon is an official pollutant and that together they must do something about it.